What is history but a fable agreed upon?

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to read more

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.